President Bartlet's moral confrontation with the Christian leaders: an institutional and moral showdown where Bartlet reclaims moral authority and repudiates coded bigotry.
President Bartlet's moral confrontation with the Christian leaders: an institutional and moral showdown where Bartlet reclaims moral authority and repudiates coded bigotry.
Events in This Arc
In the racing limousine, a pained President Bartlet urgently demands radio confirmation of Zoey's safety, rejecting Ron Butterfield's assurances she's unharmed but vomiting from shock. Probing her protection and spotting …
In the trauma room, after Zoey's tearful exit and issuing orders for government continuity, a gravely wounded President Bartlet turns to Leo McGarry for a private moment. Confirming the shooters' …
Carol escorts a tense delegation of Christian leaders — Al Caldwell, Mary Marsh, and John Van Dyke — into the Mural Room, a quiet, formal prelude to the confrontation that …
A tense delegation from the Christian right presses the White House for concessions after Josh's televised gaffe. The meeting spirals from politicking to moral abrasion when Toby calls out veiled …
Amid palpable anxiety—exemplified by Sam's frantic collision with a nurse—a doctor assures Abbey of President Bartlet's full recovery, detailing minimal blood loss and no organ damage from laparoscopy, but reveals …
A moment of nervous levity among the senior staff—ribbing about who kept their cool and a cheap, coded slight from Mary Marsh—shifts into a sharp ethical reckoning. Toby names the …
In a pivotal transition, Stanley reassures a haunted Bartlet that he knew no one on the downed plane, forging an instant bond over shared insomnia born of national tragedy. As …
In the shadowed intimacy of the President's private study at night, Stanley Keyworth's voice-over empathetically underscores the profound personal toll of Bartlet's inner world beyond the presidency's demands. The camera …
At a private White House gathering the Bartlets try to celebrate Zoey's graduation, but Jed Bartlet sits apart, ruminating over childhood photographs. Light conversation and laughter around him contrast with …
In the Situation Room a false-alarm plane scare crystallizes a larger fracture: military counsel demands action while diplomatic caution urges restraint. Overwhelmed, President Bartlet steps aside with Leo and confesses …
In the Oval Office at night the legal machinery of an emergency transfer of power unfolds — Walken signs his resignation, Madam Justice Day administers the oath, and Bartlet prepares …